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After signing four-year multimedia deals with Sky Sports and Eurosport in recent weeks, Major League Soccer "is eyeing additional deals around the globe, including in Latin and South America, Africa, and Asia," according to Ian Thomas of SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL. MLS Business Ventures President/Managi...

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Sky Sports's "flurry of rights captures in 2014 is set to continue with a deal for England's next two tours to Sri Lanka, starting in November," according to Ben Rumsby of the London TELEGRAPH. The broadcaster is planning to announce coverage of this year's five one-day internationals and two ...

Australia's Channel 10 may pursue the National Rugby League’s Auckland Nines "to build on the success of its summer ratings bonanza, cricket’s T20 Big Bash League," according to Wilson & Massoud of the Sydney DAILY TELEGRAPH. The short form of rugby league "made its debut last weeken ...

ITV Sport has "signed up" former England Manager Glenn Hoddle to be its future pundit for England matches and be part of its World Cup team in Brazil, according to Charles Sale of the London DAILY MAIL. Hoddle "will start his new role on ITV's coverage of England's friendly against Denmark on March ...

Barcelona's official Twitter accounts were hacked on Tuesday following the club's Champions League win over Man City. The hackers were activists claiming to be the Syrian Electronic Army, who sent messages from Barcelona's Catalan, English and Spanish twitter feeds that said, "Dear FC Barcelona mana ...

The sports viewing revolution "has already taken place," according to a column by News Limited's Richard Hines, published in the Sydney DAILY TELEGRAPH under the header "Richard Hines on the technology that is taking sports viewing to the next level." Hines wrote, "Forget the forecasts about how tra ...

German public broadcaster ARD "recorded top ratings for its Winter Olympics broadcasts on Monday," according to Sidney Schering of QUOTENMETER. The most-watched event on Monday was the men's ski jumping team competition, which started at 6:15pm. A total 7.05 million viewers tuned in to watch the Ger ...

The Spanish Football League (LFP) "wants to charge broadcasters" such as Mediaset for airing match highlights in a "push to increase revenue for Real Madrid, Barcelona and other teams," according to Alex Duff of BLOOMBERG. LFP President Javier Tebas said in an email that the LFP is negotiating with ...

German pay-TV channel Sky "recorded top ratings for its Bundesliga broadcasts on Saturday despite competition from the Sochi Games," according to Alexander Krei of DWDL. A total of 1.43 million viewers tuned in to Sky's simulcast or one of its individual game feeds starting at 3:30pm. In the target ...

CCZ Stratton Equities research analyst Roger Colman predicts the next Australian Football League broadcast rights contract will be worth up to A$1.6B ($1.4B), as the league "moved to beef up its intricate knowledge of the media by appointing former News Corp chief Kim Williams to its board," accordi ...

BT has "won a court battle to force the competition tribunal to re-examine its decision to stop BSkyB being forced to offer Sky Sports 1 and 2 to rivals at a discount," according to Mark Sweney of the London GUARDIAN. In "summer 2012 the Competition Appeal Tribunal handed down a scathing judgment" c ...